[access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:29:55 +0100
Hi Yuisuf,
As you know I wasn't involved in that item but Sunil did highlight the
problem of lack of USB when one of the computers he tried didn't have a
port, or at least he couldn't find it.
Cheers now.
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of yusuf
Sent: 12 October 2005 09:22
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
Andrew, Thanks for the info. I'm not criticising the Freedom box or
comparing it to any other solution for accessing a public computer. I
was
trying to point out the difficulties as I saw them of taking such a
device
and plugging it in to a USB port on a public computer. I just felt that
the
program should have pointed out both the fact that some public computers
won't even have a USB port and others that do either won't allow you to
plug
in your device or as you say the software on the PC won't allow the
device
to have proper access.
Yusuf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
> Hi,
>
> The Freedom box is actually very respectful of a lot of policy
> settings, and unless the system has been locked down to such a degree
> that it is unusable by the sighted person that needs to use it, it
> will work. A lot of people need to plug in USB devices into machines
> in caffes etc because of saving data to a thumb drive. Quite often
> when you leave the caffe the system is wiped to how it was at the
> beginning, usually using some quick restore mechanism built into
> specialist software for the specific purpose.
>
> The problems are when we need special software like authorization or
> video intercept managers to be loaded, as this is just practially not
> possible.
>
> Andrew.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of yusuf
> Sent: 11 October 2005 22:14
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] tonight's intouch
>
> Hi all, I was slightly surprised when listening to tonight's intouch
> item on the Freedom box that someone didn't mention the likelyhood
> that a blind person wouldn't simply be able to go up to a computer in
> an internet cafae,
> library or university and just plug in this external USB device.
In-fact
> I'm
> even more surprised that someone in one of the three places that Sunil
> tried
> to use the freedom box didn't ask him what he thought he was up to. I
> know
> the program is very tite but something as fundamental as this, should
> have
> been pointed out. A lot of les technologically minded people are going
> to
> have the idea that they can simply take this device an dplug it
> anywhere.
> Despite the fact that most publicly available computers won't allow
this
> and
> many won't even have USB ports.
>
> Yusuf
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